Word: promethean
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Heilbroner, who is the author of seven books, among them "The Worldly Philosophers," said, "The underlying spirit that has moved Western man to his successes is Promethean. The Promethean model has served its day and purpose. A new mood will have to take its place, one of Atlas, whose characteristic will be perseverance...
...signs of God's devastating love. But what an indulgence for the reader. Temporarily, at least, everybody can sidestep this fall's avalanche of novels-many of them apparently the work of rude boys rubbing sticks together to make fire-and enjoy a Promethean storyteller at work...
There are a number of fleeting images of Reich, quite different from the popular notion of the sexual liberator and the bold Promethean who stole knowledge from the gods. "My father was terrified of thunder and lightning," Peter writes. "He was afraid that the thunder was directed at him, for understanding it, for being able to play with it." Elsewhere he describes Reich stepping from the shower in dripping underpants and adds that "he never went naked...
Into this "wasteland" climate of despair, a countermyth of hope, has been introduced. It may be identified as the myth of the New Arcadia. The New Arcadians see their salvation in a return to Eden innocence. Arcadian man will not reprogram the world; externalized change is the Promethean trap. Arcadian man will change his own head. He will retap the sources within his archetypal self. A million individual religious experiences will take place, and these will change the world...
...policy of conquest toward nature, he denies masochistic readers the tidy comfort of feeling that ecological abuses are the exclusive products of the Judaeo-Christian tradition and modern technology. Plato, he points out, testified to the deforestation of Greece. Far from reverencing life, men (Arcadian as well as Promethean) have always been inclined to operate on the theory: "If it moves, kill...